Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder" channel.

  1. ​ @johnmartin4641  You're pretty much 99% right I'd just suggest a slight change to the line "taught material that is actually useful in high paying jobs so they will make lots of money to support themselves and their families" to "taught well enough so they can be reasonably well employed and make enough money to support themselves and their families in a stable environment" Not everyone can be a brain surgeon, astronaut, NFL QB or many other things, but they can have reasonable employment that allows them and their family to have a good life. There was a report from September 2022 by the congressional budget office on Family Wealth 1989-2019, that's been ignored by 99.9% of ALL Media. It shows that 50% of America still has NOT recovered from the 2008 GFC and another 40% has only just recovered. Meanwhile the Top 10% who caused the GFC and were bailed out (US$4 Trillion by Bush and another US$4 Trillion by Obama) have made over US$30 Trillion since.
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  2. You just know that Jerry Springer's manager is sitting somewhere crying "Why, why, couldn't he have stayed with us for this! We could have done so many shows!" That or their sitting around somewhere saying stuff like "Yeah sure people used to say we went too far but our worst stuff was G-rated compared too this stuff!"
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  3. Billionaire Nick Hanauer in his August 2014 TED talk "Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming" included some very interesting FACTS about Henry Ford including how he paid his workers more than other companies did. That talk is still available here on YT. At 5:15 in that talk he says "So the model for us rich guys should be Henry Ford. When Ford famously introduced the $5 day, which was twice the prevailing wage at the time. He didn't just increase the productivity of his factories, he converted exploited autoworkers who were poor into a thriving middle class who could now afford to buy the products that they made." FYI - I am an aerospace engineer who has worked in the automotive sector. Elon Musk deserves some credit for slapping BOTH the aerospace and automotive sectors which had become stagnant and both of those industries NEEDED to be disrupted. Without his disruption I doubt (having seen the auto industry in action) would have started pushing EVs as they are all doing. I know that without SpaceX that Space flight would be far worse off because there WOULD NOT be the Falcon Rockets. HOWEVER that does not excuse his idiotic behavior or ridiculous claims about things like driverless cars or colonising Mars or the even more dangerous Neuralink nonsense. Despite the success of the Falcon rockets Starship is almost doomed to be a monumental failure due to its size and complexity. Plus the launch facility in Texas shows they are way too comfortable cutting corners on fundamental safety. They were lucky not to lose the entire site at the last launch. The FAA should have yanked their license to operate. As for colonising Mars I attended a guest lecture in 1987 as an undergraduate that was given by a NASA Engineer who'd just done a project on what it would take to colonise Mars. We were all fairly stunned to find out just how impossible of a task it would be without God like powers. Over 30 years later I am yet to see anyone prove they have developed any of the basic life support technologies that would be needed or the means to get there in any sort of a reasonable time period.
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  4. ​ @LookB4ULeap  You've just described how EVERY Democracy works. At its core democracy allows different opinions and policies to co-exist at the same time. Even in countries where there is absolute control there's almost always a different opinion even if it doesn't dare speak out. The biggest problem the world actually has with America right now is that too many Americans are so badly informed about the rest of the world. Even worse is how little Americans know of their own country. I'm a Gen-Xr and did my degree in the late 80s. I used to find it embarrassing how well my friends understood the US Constitution while I new little of my own. Even those friends who weren't pre-law or politically minded were well informed. BUT then they had all done CIVICS in high school. If there is one thing I would add to the high school curriculum of Australia it would be a Australian version of the civics class that all Americans used to do in high school. Since I can see the effect of what Bush and Cheney did by defunding civics. I think I can fairly claim that in defunding civics Bush & Cheney committed a "social" or "societal" crime against the American people. I think its one of America's major problems right now. Trump would never have gotten away with what he did if the American people were better informed and civics gave the American people the foundation of being better informed which is why I'd like to see an Australian version of it taught here. If America ever does bring it back the one thing they need to add to that class would be some basic world geography and geo-politics. Sorry for the rant
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  5. You make a good nuanced point. I think this was a pretty ordinary interview with next to zero pushback. To single out 1 film which had a number of pretty bad scenes of how hard the whole mess was. In Saving Private Ryan. Right at the start the beach landing was horrific. They opened the ramps on some of those landing craft and the machine guns just slaughtered them all before they could take a step. Not long after they made their way up the beach and over the top there's a short scene where German soldiers surrender and with both arms in the air the Americans simply shoot them. Then there's the one young American machine gunned when they storm the Radio station. Then Vin Diesel gets shot by the sniper. Then a bunch of them get blown up trying to plant sticky bombs on the Tiger Tank. Then a bunch get massacred by the small auto cannon. And then there's the fact most of them died in the final battle. How are all these things glorifying that generation. Band of Brothers and the Pacific were great series that showed a lot of the issues that people faced and a lot of it was damn ugly stuff. I think she's written an anti-war book and I'd agree Hollywood has whitewashed the War but the examples she is giving don't actually fit her message. If she'd picked on some of the other Hollywood films, like the recent film Midway which was just awful, she'd be a lot more convincing.
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  6. The one thing I can say with near certainty is that Dave Rubin does NOT have PTSD unless you mean something other than Post-traumatic stress disorder and that's because PTSD requires a functioning brain and Dave Rubin simply does not have enough brain function to suffer PTSD.
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  7. Its not so much capitalism BUT THE VERSION of capitalism we are now running that's the problem. Like the extreme versions of socialism and communism that various countries tried in the last century they promised great outcomes for all but delivered to only a few at the top. If you go back through history at all the other "isms" people claimed would be great they delivered for only a few and ended up destroying themselves. Capitalism is no different. If you go and watch people like Mark Blyth he'll tell you there's been at least 3 main versions of capitalism and the first 2 failed for various reasons and the 3rd is now failing for reasons like what you are talking about. The more important discussion that needs to be held is WHAT COMES NEXT and there's not many people even discussing that concept.
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  8. And we all would have seen the best side step since Walter Payton was in his prime. This guy is slipperier than Patrick Mahomes and is the new, new, new,...... new poster child for the "we hate politicians who lie" club.
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  9. I'm Australian and this election has always had huge ramifications for us like its had for some other countries. The democrats are plagued by a group of OLD PEOPLE who just won't accept their time is over. Jimmy Carter is one of the rare examples of a Democrat getting out of the road while helping when he can. The Bidens, Pelosis, Clintons and Obamas on the other hand......... The ramifications of that attitude is staggering. I've looked at some of the stats and one that I have NOT YET seen anyone discuss is the voter turnout and its the REAL ISSUE America needs to look at. According to the stats on Wikipedia almost every election gets a larger turnout than the previous one as expected from population growth. 2012 is a rare exception, but it doesn't compare to 2024 with over 16 million FEWER voters. EVEN Trump is DOWN by 800,000 over his 2020 result. When you consider that he picked up a slab of young male 1st time voters that means a couple of million of his base give up on his nonsense. Harris is Down by 12.4 million compared to Bidens 2020 result and that means a gigantic slab of the people who turned up in 2020 just gave up. Independents were simply annihilated. Anthony Scaramucci said something the other day about the options people had. Here's some to think about. 1) If you're a college student who wants the Genocide in Gaza to stop. Do you vote for Kamala who's helped support it or do you vote for Benjamin Netanyahu's choice for President. 2) If your a mother who's son is stuck in the basement vaping and playing video games. Do you vote for DEI Kamala or the felon who brags about grabbing women by the pussy. 3) If your a father who's daughter is worried about boys in the locker room. Do you vote for DEI Kamala or the convicted felon who would grab your daughter by the pussy. 4) If you vote 3rd party or independent what's the point of actually voting when you get NOTHING for it other than an opportunity to wave your middle finger at the Democrats and Republicans who don't care anyway. 5) If your Gen-X, Millennial or a Zoomer do you vote for the party run by selfish old people who don't care about your future or do you vote for the party run by a narcissistic sociopath, liar and convicted felon who's surrounded by other narcissistic sociopaths, liars and convicted criminals NONE of who care about your future. America has alienated so many of its people that 16 million who voted 4 years ago GAVE UP ON VOTING. Simply it doesn't matter if you're being asked to eat a BULLSHlT sandwich or a CHICKENSHlT sandwich you're still being asked to eat a SHlT sandwich. Sorry for the rant but what just happened has GLOBAL ramifications and America is functioning like NASCAR on 5 cylinders.
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  10. That's a brutal but also factual truth of what's happened.
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  11. I'm Australian and do you guys know that people like Charles Koch have been exporting this across the planet? RIGHT NOW here in Australia we have a referendum to change out constitution to formally recognize that the country had an existing people with their own culture BEFORE British Colonization. It would set up a "Voice to Parliament" that's based on the systems the Nordic countries set up for the Sami people of Northern Scandinavia. It has taken years to set-up and get organised and was (at first) widely supported across the country. It now looks like failing due to a vicious misinformation campaign running on straight up fear. The public front of the "No Campaign" is lead by 2 well known Aboriginal with links to American Libertarianism. Both have worked with or for Australian Libertarian think tanks (yes we have them too). The most notable among those think tanks is the The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA). Not only does the IPA have links to a string of Australian billionaires including the Murdoch's (and yes Rupert & Lachlan are both radical libertarians) but it openly admits its links to America's Libertarian think tanks including the Heritage Foundation and CATO Institute. Go and look at its home page here on YouTube and scroll down to its links.
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  12. Australia here: What you are describing is the HISTORICAL attitude of and excuses made by people here for most of the last 200 years (since white settlement) and I dare say for many other nations. I was in Canada a couple of years ago and the similarities with Australia were stark. New Zealand is similar to Australia as we were both settled by Europeans around the same time and have had similar issues. Like many other societies were are trying to move on and repair the damage done, but just as other places we to have these types of conservative (or regressive) people who just won't see that the rest of us are moving on. In general these are people who of whatever reason are afraid of change and it really is fear. Some are afraid of losing power (political or otherwise) and others just change itself, while for some it is an ideological issue. What is in Australia's, Canada's and New Zealand's favor is that we have at least started down the path to reconciling our past and not too many countries can say similar. Maybe we have a slight advantage in that our colonial history is more recent in terms of time scales as it only goes back around 200 to 300 years (a bit longer for Canada). For many others they have a lot more history to reconcile. We sometimes forget that the Jews, Egyptians, Persians, Arabs, Turks, Greeks, Romans,.... etc have complicated histories going back at least 3,500 years (1,500 BCE) and in some cases much longer. If you don't know the references recently made regarding Amalek by certain Israelis references events in the Eleventh Century BCE (which is over 3,000 years ago).
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  13. I'm an engineer (aerospace) and its now almost a full time job for engineers to have to REPEATEDLY explain to clowns why certain things won't work or do you want me to explain; - The Titan submarine and how they ignored experienced engineers; or - The Boeing Max-8 and how they threw the common sense rule book out the window; or - Any of a number of other tragedies where "enlightened vision" overruled "common sense"
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  14. That's actually a fair assessment in among a pile of stupid comments. Yang failed to ever understand how ruthless politics has become. I'm Australian and this is a problem across the Western Democratic world. I have a friend who was in Australian student politics and he explained to me how ruthless that is. Its like the Hunger Games for future politicians and the survivors get to go into the big game. I remember watching Yang do a small interview with a host and 2 "undecided" voters. He was really impressive about some issues I am familiar with in terms of education and training. BUT having good ideas means NOTHING in politics right now. Look at what Matt Gaetz ahs just done, without having a single redeeming trait let alone any policies or getting anything done that benefits anyone but himself. No matter what good ideas or intentions some people have, if they don't understand how politics works its like sending people into war armed with swords and shields against artillery and automatic weapons. Here in Oz we have same basic problems. We get the news from Britain and Europe and they're similar (if not worse). I was in Canada a couple of years ago for work and loved the place but their politics are almost as toxic as Australia's. The most bizarre thing was (at the time) Canada had a scandal over government contracts that was so close to a scandal in Australia I could only tell the news reports apart by the accent of the reporters.
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  15.  @danc8381  Gotta love all the math that's being done here.
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  16. I'm an engineer who's been informally studying economics for a couple of years and YOU'RE RIGHT. The economics we are living with right now isn't capitalism as its been described or what people think its supposed to be. Clepto-Capitalism is a great description. Look at the very title of Adam Smiths book. Its "Wealth of Nations" NOT Wealth of the few and screw the rest. The interesting thing is that the work of Smith, Ricard, Marx and others were all in the vein of how do we (humanity) not go backwards into feudalism or mercantilism and yet what we have right now is a weird hybrid of feudalistic mercantilism. I've listened to a lot of the book talks Mark Blyth (Brown U.) has done. One was with a Eric Helleiner who's described what he calls neo-mercantilism and he's given the best explanation of what China is up to. At its core mercantilism is not simply about controlling wealth but also about political control at the nation versus nation level. What we now have are people who have no allegiance towards any nation or even society itself but their means of control is through economics. I recently watched a series of 4 talks by Damon Silvers for the UCL IIPP that Mariana Mazucatto runs and yeah I watched all 6 hours. The first of those talks is titled "Understanding Neoliberalism as a System of Power" Another great thing I saw recently was a video by Simon Clark titled "Global Warming: The Decade We Lost Earth" and he highlights that the whole denial campaigns that started in the first Bush Whitehouse had NOTHING to do with fossil fuels or solar or wind. Its was a political move by American Libertarians who are 100% of the mindset that NO Government should ever do anything except leave them to do whatever they like. What you call Clepto-Capitalism (which is an awesome label) is all about this small group of people getting what they want without any consideration of the rest of society, humanity or the planet. Their ideology is basically "We demand the liberty to strip the rest of you of your liberty!"
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  17.  @ResurgentVoice  no probs The other super person to listen to on economics is Gary Stevenson who's not a college professor, but was Citibank's top trader in the world by his mid 20s. He's what I call a rebel economist and has a great YouTube channel Garys Economics. He's also done a number of podcasts with Peter Komolafe which are pretty good.
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  18.  @alexanderwestphal9777  Taking that further Sam Harris has spoken against other religious ideologies for similar reasons. I think before Sam Seder says anything like that again he should look in the mirror first and ask how much he likes the sound of his own voice and believes how brilliant his own opinions are.
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  19. If you want to take that a step further and accept that at the most fundamental level communism is the communal ownership of property. Then by that most basic definition things like publicly owned companies where anyone can own shares in those companies are also a form of communism that overlaps with capitalism and democracy. Everyone is free to join or not join the ownership of an enterprise that is owned by a community of shareholders where each person is free to own as many shares as they like or can afford while the officers of that enterprise are democratically elected where each share gets 1 vote. I'm an engineer and I've been informally studying economics for a couple of years and one of the things I found is how badly most people understand some of the most basic concepts because of all the political culture war nonsense that's been raging. As an engineer we have things called basic principles that DO NOT CHANGE. The problem is that in Economics & Politics everything changes constantly. FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America. I was there 3-1/2 years including the 1987 presidential pre-season. The single biggest issue with American politics is that the whole shitfest takes place in a manufactured bubble of noise and confusion. American politics is more Truman Show than reality. And before anyone asks yes I am aware that one of the WORST offenders in fueling the current culture war is Australian born Rupert Murdoch. But then we did try and warn you what he was like just as we had tried to warn the Brits and you didn't listen just as the Brits didn't listen. For reference go and watch or rewatch the 2004 documentary "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism"
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  20.  @signoguns8501  Yeah he's becoming another Alex Jones type of rage merchant. I once heard Jones sells up to $50 million of crap in a good year. Recent reports put his wealth a lot lower, but still he's worth millions. I wonder if that's what Jimmy's chasing now. He gave up being reasonable and decided rage was more profitable. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  21. What a great quote to put up. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
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  22. As an engineer who works in industrial control systems I can say you are absolutely right on the first point except like every process its never quite that simple. There's well trodden proverb about engineering projects. "The last 10% is harder than the first 90% and the last 1% is harder than the first 99% and the last 0.1% is harder than the first 99.9%."
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  23. I'm an aerospace engineer who works in industrial control systems and automation. After graduating I did several years of postgraduate research and I can tell from FIRST HAND experience that the entire research industry has serious issues with funding. MOST people are honest and work their guts out doing good work, but then there are those who are outright fraudsters. There's several YouTube channels dedicated to exposing that sort of stuff. I see and hear so much nonsense in engineering reporting it hard not to scream at times. This whole lab leak saga is just as bad maybe worse. The point is that science and scientists aren't 100% pure and honest. There's buckets of fraud going on and many honest people get run out of the research industries for speaking out. There's a lot been said about things going on in virology and pathogen research that is not being publicly discussed because almost every public discussion outlets - Left, Right or Centre are being delivered from a POLITICAL view with a POLITICAL narrative. Its why we've not gotten to the bottom of this mess. Anytime someone does try and say anything sensible there's some clown with a political narrative jumping in screaming and ranting. I see the same happening in engineering topics. As an aerospace engineer I can tell you most of the discussions about hypersonic missiles and Chinese Space lasers are complete nonsense BUT THEN the media is reporting POLITICAL NARRATIVE not facts.
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  24.  @pirrracy  I get your point but Pauline was a politician NOT a TV presenter like Kilmead. She was (past tense) our very own Marjorie Taylor Green and has thankfully disappeared into oblivion and hasn't been seen or heard from in a few years despite COVID being tailor made for her conspiracy bent brain. I bet she's sitting somewhere complaining about how she was a head of her time and that MTG, Kari Lake and and Lauren Brobert are cheap imitations. Maybe MTG and Kari Lake will do the same, while I hear that Lauren Brobert has a future at IVF clinics as a hands-on assistant.
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  25.  @amyrashap5713  Great comment. Also if you have or haven't read it Orwell in 1984 predicted the advent of Television sets with inbuilt cameras to watch the people watching TV. All of our laptops, mobile phones and even some TVs are now just as Orwell described. The only difference is that Big Brother isn't watching you BUT your friendly AI brought to you by Meta, Google, Apple, Microsoft,..... is watching EVERYTHING.
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  26. I'm Australian and ha heard about what was going on with organised crime gangs destroying sections of Romanian forests. What I didn't know was 1) How important Romania's old growth forest was to Europe, and; 2) That IKEA was involved. Here in Australia IKEA is regarded as this fun kit furniture created by innovative Swedes.
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  27. Of course you shouldn't get medical advice from a comedian. You're supposed to get it from Social Media Influencers like all the other geniuses do.
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  28.  @sporer_  Really? Only 25,000??
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  29. What do they say: "Not all cryptos are scams. Some of them are Ponzi Schemes and Pyramid MLMs Business Arrangements AND everyone knows someone, who knows someone who made heaps cos they're so awesome."
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  30.  @MichaelAronson  Actually that episode where they didn't hold Nancy Pelosi and others drove a lot of people on America's Left wild at the time. The difference was they didn't lose their minds the way Jimmy Dore did. As for being Dore knob (nice pun) when he was having sensible conversations AND HE WAS Jimmy was fine. But then he just started howling crap into the microphone and it only got worse and worse. I haven't watched a thing he's put out since that time, which was a couple of years ago. Stories like this only confirm he hasn't changed. There's been times I got tired of others too and stopped watching them for a while, when all they would do is vid after vid of nothing but howling rage. Its why I stopped watching TYT. Yeah Cenk & Ana are fairly smart and mostly make sense but I just can't stand the constant howling even if they are making sense. At least they don't talk idiotic SHlT like Jimmy Dore does.
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  31. The tragedy of Dave Rubin is that he thinks he so much smarter than he actually is. I so many ways we all get ahead of ourselves at times before we suddenly find out we didn't know as much as we thought and have to take a pause. Rubin just thinks he's above that. A few weeks back ! saw an interview with British Actor/Comedian Tom Hardy who plays Jonathan Pie and he said we have to take at least some time listening to the other side or we'll never understand them. One of Dave's podcasts popped up a few days later and I bit the bullet. It was a 34 minute long panel discussion Dave hosted with 3 others, one of whom represented Prager U. I don't know what was the worst aspect, the cringe, the ignorance, the arrogance, the hypocrisy or how they CELBRATED those things. Everyone no matter their politics can be and usually has done something cringy or ignorant or arrogant or hypocritical, but these guys wound the dials up to 11 across the board and CELEBRATED IT. Despite their claims of being intelligent and reasonable, the only things they seem to value are taking smug cheap shots at others.
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  32. ​ @charliekowittmusic  I'm Actually Australian we have been through all of that stuff multiple times over the past 30 years. Every so often these days there'll be a public forum on immigration and there's always some old white clown complaining about "boat people." Every so often there's an Aboriginal person there who just throws it back about how they should have stopped the boat people 200 years ago. It always shows just how stupid the arguments are.
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  33. I'm Australian and this is exactly what we are seeing here these days with our politicians and its not simply politicians on one side its ALL SIDES. Only hours ago one of Right Wing politicians did exactly the same sort of thing. He blasted the current Left Wing government over energy policy and was then asked what he did when he was in charge over the last decade that he was in power AND all he did was deflect and then waffle on with a pile of virtue signalling. it was just like what Nikki Haley, Tim Scott and Vivek Ramaswamy did If I go and watch anything out of Europe its the same thing. We get a lot of British news and if you had Australia or American actors doing the voices you would not know it was British. ALMOST NONE OF THEM HAVE POLICIES and the few that do have policies get shot to bits by all sides. Its almost like having a viable policy to do stuff is political heresy.
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  34. That's not a bad description of RB. I think his heart is in the right place but his mouth gets ahead of brain function way to much. Most of all he forgets that fame and celebrity ARE NOT measures of credibility on anything but fame and celebrity. On all other topics ITS NOT.
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  35.  @birchsongsltd.6831  Dude he's all over the place whether he's jacked up on coke or clean as bleached sheets.
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  36.  @mrblonde1264  one of the biggest problems is that too often we can't even agree on basic facts. I can't express fully how frustrating it is to be an engineer right now. Engineering is pretty damn straight forward. Stuff works or it doesn't. Its maintained properly or it breaks down. Some things are great in some circumstances and lousy in others. But with social media there's so much BS being pumped out its almost a full time job explaining to M0R0NS what is and isn't possible. I am beginning to think the worst mistake engineers ever made was working out how to let non-engineers use computers. Its created the mass delusion that because people can use a computer they are also technically qualified.
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  37. As another Australian I agree. But maybe we shouldn't have kept telling Americans we ride kangaroos like Luke Skywalker rode his tauntaun in "The Empire Strikes Back."
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  38. I think you are specifically referring to Tim Poole but I'd slightly modify that statement to "A coward never debates a rational person alone, they always need backup." Never forget that no matter what the ideology someone has (left, right, up, down, whatever,....) once they get to the point where defending their ideology matters more than rational behavior there's a very real problem because such people are willing to destroy society to prove their point. We have dozens of examples from history including recent history that prove that. Don't ever forget that when the left get out of control they do it at spectacular levels or do we need to discuss Russia, China, North Korea or any of the other communist or socialist countries that have been catastrophic failures or are their way to catastrophic failure.
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  39. Charlie Kirk is just one of the reasons why the Aliens haven't made contact. Why would they? If you just travelled across the galaxy in you hyper-space faster than light worm hole starship would you make contact with the ignorant local species if you tuned in to their comms and Charlie Kirk came up??????
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  40. I'm Australian and as an outside observer I have a question for you: How did American get to the point where over 70 million people BELIEVED in NOTHING, so that they were so easily fooled by Trump? The best commentators are NOT describing Trump as a disease but as a symptom of a larger problem. Among America's elite there's a view that everyone else is a problem that they have to manage and so we are clear we have the same problem in Australia. If you ever go and look at the core ideology of neo-conservative thought its based on the idea that democracy will fail because people will vote for what's best in their best interest NOT what's best for society. I first heard about that during a documentary (~20years ago) comparing the Al Qaeda leadership to the American Neo-con leadership AND BOTH shared this common belief that democracy CANNOT WORK because people are fundamentally selfish. There was a great comment Jessica Tarlov made about this recently. She reiterated what Trump supporter had said. "Yes we know Trump's crazy but crazy doesn't look down on me." She then explained this is the problem that America's elite has. They look down on everyone else and see them as problems to be managed. As I said at the start, I'm Australian and YES we have the same problem here in Australia. Its just not as obvious.
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  41.  @Bad_Hombre_ADK  Awesome summation. 🤣😂👍
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  42.  @Darkrider12  I think you'll find they all do it as some sort of "dodge the difficult question technique."
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  43. Fellow Australian here and I support that 100% I fear one of these days the rest of the world is going to punish us for the existence of the Murdoch Clan.
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  44. Go look at his career. He worked for the Murdoch's for years and that's a technique that I'm surprised Rupert never trademarked. Aske a question and when they are 1/2 way through answering talk over them and then just keep doing that until you can catch them out on something.
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  45. My mother died of breast cancer and her father from prostate cancer so you have my absolute sympathy for what you have been through. I too am completely fed up with "this age of misinformation." I went to U. Illinois where many of the people who made what you know as the Internet (Web browsers and YouTube among them) also went. The internet and social media was meant to "democratise information" and instead what it's done is "democratise MIS-information."
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  46. Hey NEW RULE: "Members of general public have the right to b*tch slap celebrities who think their opinion matters more than the education, training and experience of subject matter experts - LIKE DOCTORS!" For the record I'm an engineer.
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  47. Aerospace engineer here: I've over 30 years working in industrial control systems, automation and robotics. I am going to try and explain were some of this confusion comes from. First there are 2 words we use a lot in robotics and automation, teaching and learning that have very different meanings to us our work than they do for the general population. In the AI field the word "training" is also a word that's got a completely different meaning to what the general population knows or uses. I'll do this in 3 sub comments so that this isn't one giant lecture like tome of confusion.
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  48. I'm Australian and we have spent years trying to deal with what happened here with White Settlement and several of the events afterwards. I had nothing to do with any of the horrible crimes of our past, but if we are NOT honest about those events then we are destined to repeat them, because there will be people like Elon Musk who's living with the denial of his own family's past behavior in South Africa AND they will take advantage of that. On the flip side of that I will always warn people to NOT ram guilt down the throats of people who had nothing to do with these sorts of events. It will always lead towards resentment and out of that resentment you can have people doing exactly what Elon is doing here.
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  49. Love the sentiment but there's this thing called free speech. Napoleon said you should bever interrupt an enemy when they are making a mistake and the best thing anyone can do is keep letting Tim Pool make and idiot of himself. Besides, that anyone with a functioning brain knows it was America who blew up Nordstream. Its simply a matter of who actually has the skill set and personnel and means to sneak into the Baltic and then split open 50 meters of concrete lined pipe at depth AND DO IT 3 TIMES. That's not 4 dudes on a rented fishing boat.
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  50.  @dougking4377  Foxworthy should do a special on this.
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